Long Labor of love Poems

I inherited a restaurant, from my parents who had retired.
It was a classy one, and only the best of staff were hired.

Overseeing its operation, was genuinely a labor of love,
As the noon warming sunshine, oversees...

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those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools...

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* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends with a moral lesson that humanity still hasn't learned, sadly.

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Upon exiting the womb...

23,190 days ago,

Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-number/.

Come November 15, 2022
(a little more than
four months from now -
actually one hundred twenty days
after today July 11, 2022),
the world's...

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Multicultural Appreciative Design
begins with how we nutritionally feel,
nurtured or afflicted,
invested or divested,
resonant and/or dissonant about a few issues,
spiritually healthy
and naturally wealthy 
growing out
into more robust global matters.

Polycultural win/win outcome strategies
follow principles of cooperative economy
and regenerative...

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Doubting thomas doth hanker to live in (or share)...
a house without gossips nor gonifs with the missus

Maybe a pair of stray eyes
will alight on my post
might subsequently manifest destiny
as a positive force
to help me secure
a...

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Under the colorful leaves 
Of my Poet-tree
The Autumn breeze
Blows one off and it spirals slowly
Down for me To read

I pick it up off the ground
And looking around
I hear no sound
On a big mushroom I sit...

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*"Love's Rare Gift"*

In the tapestry of life, where hearts entwine,
A treasure rare, is love's divine.
Genuine and true, it shines like a beacon bright,
Warming our souls, with its gentle light.

Being loved, is a feeling sublime,
A sense...

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Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)

Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eight hours ago
power outage affected more than
half a million people
in mid-Atlantic states.

Residents in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
(the poet's hometown)
smack dab...

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According to a young boy's warning visit to hell there is a tattoo artist in hell who is receiving both his own tattoos and being tormented by demons! All because he gave other people tattoos...

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Poetry as well as writing are both gifts and labors of love.
Jesus Christ has freely bestowed  upon me his gifts of
Writing and poetry. I am primarily an inspirational/ 
Christian poetic writer.  It is...

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I feel my ears pop,
As the light above me increases ...
Columns of purple sunshine shimmer and dance.
I swim up out of the cool, inky blackness of the depths,

And finally reach the surface, head bobbing like...

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MY FATHERS BEDSIDE GOODBYE..
His Legacy 6/24/2022

Standing on lifes fragile ledge, 
I gaze 
    wonderingly 
into your brown orbs.

Windows into a house built
By your large hands
Hands That I would now inherit. 

Deep and cavernous..
        oh the...

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i took her riding
this time my venue, not hers
she loves horses, i am no equestrian
i am beyond saddle sore now
trail rides where every bird is identified
a short illumination of the species
mine are in this little...

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All but these bonds who forged ironies chain's                           ...

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TO AND IN THE NATURE OF AWARENESS GRACE


A fall morning drive presents an interesting ride.
Looking out into he roadside forest palisade,
Eyes fall upon two age-old stoic trees still clothed
In their branches’ waving illuminating green leaves:-
Like...

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You Can Do It,

Yo brotha, I know you 25,
Tryin’ to stay alive,
On the south side,
You ain’t got no friends,
Since you turned away from sin,
And the sex be callin’ you back into her arms,
It’s like there...

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MY MODEL PLANE

Way back, when I was 12 years old,
I built a model airplane with my Dad,
It was a great experience, but most of all,
We spent some time together, and for that I was glad.

The...

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Thank you God for all that you have given me
You pulled me through, the worst 5 years of my life
But I realize for the first time, I am truly living my life
On a journey with...

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The River

As the Lord looked down from on His lofty throne
upon Tampa’s spiritually parched and barren land
His eyes began to swell with tears
and fall upon the surrounding scorched sand.

He then opened His mouth and spoke,...

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Voting With One's Feet
(American Peace Corps Volunteers)
Let me sing the 'American Peace Corps,'
Its heart for so much of the world
Though by governments youth are exploited,
There brotherhood's flag flapped unfurled.

Some who served on return would get...

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(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)


Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas” 
all in the world forget the truth. 

Remember that all have their rights...

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It doesn't always work all of the time.
I can't recall a day in my 2 weeks here
that I've successfully managed to suspend my decline.
I go to work in my usual way,
I stare down to the...

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In halls of learning, where young minds ignite,
A symphony of guidance, shining ever bright.
Not just the teacher with lessons planned,
But every soul contributes, with loving hand.
The janitor's care, a clean and welcoming space,
The lunch lady's...

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OF BEAUTIFUL MORNING GLORIES…

The ebon night
has slowly waned
and the peaking dawn
waxes as the horizon slowly
raises its eyelid releasing
a sleepy orange glow.
 
Slowly, the giant
earthly eyeball begins
to brightly shine morning
with its eternal visioning of life
and another...

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